Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
THE NEW FUEL GAS
Invented by the Maker os tho r,xs.
Artificial Uea
'0s Angeles Time,

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On the southeast corner of Alameda
and Seventeenth streets the 1926. 900
plant Of the new water-gas COMPANY
is now complete. Through the prin-
cipal streets of the city some six miles
OF big mains have been laid, and next
week the company hopes to be max
ing the gas which for fuel and illumi-
mating purposes is confidently claimed
to be entirely without an equal. The
opening Of the new works will involve
a social evolution here. The superb
lncandescent light generally pre-
ferred to incandescent electricity-will
be sufficiently welcome novelty, but
in the kitchen stove and in the parlor
CRATE the new gas will make itself
most felt. A safe gas, which will not
explode nor set the house ON fire !:
which will do all manner of cooking
as well as coal fire and at very
much less cost; which makes the
lighting or the quenching of the
kitchen fire or the parlor heater as
simple, a matter as turning the water
on and off at the sink, that will read
lily appeal to every household in the
city. and there will be scramble to
get on the line of the labor saving
pipes. Professor loves home is in
Norristown, Pa, but he is now max
ing tour of the coast, accompanied
by his wife and daughter. OF tall and
commanding figure, handsome and in
telligent face and polished address.
Professor Lowe would attract attention
in. any company. His life has been
an interesting and rather distinguished
one. During the war he had charge
of the balloon service, being chief Of
the Government Observation Corps.
Here his inventive genius took new
range, and directly after the close of
the war he made most important dis
covery-the process Of making artif-
cial ice. In 1865 in New York he
manufactured the first pound of arti-
fetal ice ever made. Soon after he
established an ice factory at Spring
field Mass, and astonished the natives
by sending Connecticut river shad,
frozen up in the center of crystal
blocks of ice, as far as New Orleans.
He refrigerated the first steamer that
ever sailed from New York to Europe
with a cold-storage cargo, and made
the plans for the first refrigerator car
ever constructed. Unfortunately he
was too progressive for his day and
generation, and he never reaped the
pecuniary benefits of an invention
which has revolutionized the worlds
commerce in perishable articles.
While experimenting with artificial
ice, however, Professor Lowe made an
even more important discovery; and,
more fortunate this time, laid the
foundations of lasting success. He
invented the process for manufactur-
ing Illuminating gas from water. His
experiments proved a perfect success,
as to-day 286 cities of the United
States are using his water gas for illu-
minating purposes. This invention is
IA years old. The adaptation for fuel
purposes, however, is of recent date,
and the remarkably clever and conve-
nient appliances for cooking and heat
ing with it are but lately completed.
Los Angeles is the third city in the
world to have the fuel-gas plant.
Lynn, Mass, was the first, and the
people there are delighted with the
gas, both for Illuminating and for
fuel. Troy, N. Y, was the second
city to get plant, but it was merely
an experiment there, and Los Angeles
will really be the second city with the
fuel-gas plant in full operation.